Quote Originally Posted by ljbab728 View Post
Spartan, are you saying that Tulsa now requires no parking at all for businesses?
I will never agree that no zoning, like Houston has, promotes anything like a great urban area. The booming economy that Houston has enjoyed for years has much more to do with that. If Dallas and Kansas City have higher land values than OKC how can that be the fault of city planners?
I'm not trying to make excuses for everything that the city does because I know they make mistakes, I just don't think they can be blamed for everything like you're trying to do.
Houston has no zoning is a fallacy....
Certain areas of Houston have zoning and other areas may not have "official zoning" but have a ton of restrictions on them to effectively be called zoning. Try building a plant in the Montrose area...you would see real quick that there is "effective zoning" in Houston. Even a "nice" office building can have a hard time getting through the approval process in certain areas.